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Schirmann JG, Bortoleti BTS, Gonçalves MD, Tomiotto-Pellissier F, Camargo PG, Miranda-Sapla MM, Lima CHS, Bispo MLF, Costa IN, Conchon-Costa I, Pavanelli WR, Dekker RFH, Barbosa-Dekker AM. In-vitro biological evaluation of 3,3',5,5'-tetramethoxy-biphenyl-4,4'-diol and molecular docking studies on trypanothione reductase and Gp63 from Leishmania amazonensis demonstrated anti-leishmania potential. Sci Rep 2023; 13:6928. [PMID: 37117253 PMCID: PMC10147928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34124-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Available treatments for leishmaniasis have been widely used since the 1940s but come at a high cost, variable efficacy, high toxicity, and adverse side-effects. 3,3',5,5'-Tetramethoxy-biphenyl-4,4'-diol (TMBP) was synthesized through laccase-catalysis of 2,6-dimethoxyphenol and displayed antioxidant and anticancer activity, and is considered a potential drug candidate. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the anti-leishmanial effect of TMBP against promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania (L.) amazonensis and investigated the mechanisms involved in parasite death. TMBP treatment inhibited the proliferation (IC50 0.62-0.86 µM) and induced the death of promastigote forms by generating reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial dysfunction. In intracellular amastigotes, TMBP reduced the percentage of infected macrophages, being 62.7 times more selective to the parasite (CC50 53.93 µM). TMBP did not hemolyze sheep erythrocytes; indicative of low cytotoxicity. Additionally, molecular docking analysis on two enzyme targets of L. amazonensis: trypanothione reductase (TR) and leishmanolysin (Gp63), suggested that the hydroxyl group could be a pharmacophoric group due to its binding affinity by hydrogen bonds with residues at the active site of both enzymes. TMBP was more selective to the Gp63 target than TR. This is the first report that TMBP is a promising compound to act as an anti-leishmanial agent.
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- Jéseka G Schirmann
- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
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- Fiocruz, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biociências e Biotecnologia, Instituto Carlos Chagas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Fiocruz, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biociências e Biotecnologia, Instituto Carlos Chagas, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Ambiental, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Câmpus de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
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Santiago-Silva KM, Camargo PG, Bispo MLF. Promising Molecular Targets Related to Polyamine Biosynthesis in Drug Discovery against Leishmaniasis. Med Chem 2023; 19:2-9. [PMID: 35838221 DOI: 10.2174/1573406418666220713145446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease widely distributed worldwide, caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Leishmania. Despite representing a significant public health problem, the therapeutic options are old, with several reported adverse effects, have high costs, with administration mainly by parenteral route, which makes treatment difficult, increasing dropout and, consequently, the emergence of resistant strains. Thus, the research and development of new antileishmanial therapies become necessary. In this field, inhibiting essential targets that affect the parasite's growth, survival, and infectivity represents an attractive therapeutic strategy. With this in mind, this review addresses the main structural, functional characteristics and recent reports of the discovery of promising inhibitors of the enzymes Arginase (ARG) and trypanothione synthase (TryS), which are involved in the biosynthesis of polyamines and trypanothione and Trypanothione Reductase (TR), responsible for the reduction of trypanothione thiol.
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- Kaio M Santiago-Silva
- Laboratório de Síntese de Moléculas Medicinais (LaSMMed), Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Síntese de Moléculas Medicinais (LaSMMed), Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Síntese de Moléculas Medicinais (LaSMMed), Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil
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Biasi‐Garbin RP, Fabris M, Morguette AEB, Andriani GM, Cabral WRC, Pereira PML, Brito TO, Macedo F, Da Silva Lima CH, Lancheros CAC, Nakamura CV, Pinge‐Filho P, Tavares ER, Yamauchi LM, Bispo MLF, Yamada‐Ogatta SF. In Vitro Antimicrobial Screening of Benzoylthioureas: Synthesis, Antibacterial Activity toward
Streptococcus agalactiae
and Molecular Docking Study. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202202117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Renata P. Biasi‐Garbin
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Orgânica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Avenida Athos da Silveira Ramos, n° 149, Bloco A, Centro de Tecnologia, Cidade Universitária 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro - RJ Brazil
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- Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Patológicas Universidade Estadual de Londrina Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde Universidade Estadual de Maringá Avenida Colombo, 5790, Campus Universitário 87020-900 Maringá Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Microbiologia Departamento de Microbiologia Universidade Estadual de Londrina Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid s/n, Campus Universitário 86057-970 Londrina Paraná Brazil
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Silva D, Lopes MVC, Petrovski Ž, Santos MM, Santos JP, Yamada-Ogatta SF, Bispo MLF, de Souza MVN, Duarte ARC, Lourenço MCS, Gonçalves RSB, Branco LC. Novel Organic Salts Based on Mefloquine: Synthesis, Solubility, Permeability, and In Vitro Activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27165167. [PMID: 36014405 PMCID: PMC9412322 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27165167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The development of novel pharmaceutical tools to efficiently tackle tuberculosis is the order of the day due to the rapid development of resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Herein, we report novel potential formulations of a repurposed drug, the antimalarial mefloquine (MFL), which was combined with organic anions as chemical adjuvants. Eight mefloquine organic salts were obtained by ion metathesis reaction between mefloquine hydrochloride ([MFLH][Cl]) and several organic acid sodium salts in high yields. One of the salts, mefloquine mesylate ([MFLH][MsO]), presented increased water solubility in comparison with [MFLH][Cl]. Moreover, all salts with the exception of mefloquine docusate ([MFLH][AOT]) showed improved permeability and diffusion through synthetic membranes. Finally, in vitro activity studies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed that these ionic formulations exhibited up to 1.5-times lower MIC values when compared with [MFLH][Cl], particularly mefloquine camphorsulfonates ([MFLH][(1R)-CSA], [MFLH][(1S)-CSA]) and mefloquine HEPES ([MFLH][HEPES]).
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- Dário Silva
- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina 86057-970, Brazil
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- FioCruz-Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far-Manguinhos, Rua Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Clínica Evandro Chagas—IPEC, Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil
- Correspondence: (R.S.B.G.); (L.C.B.)
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- Correspondence: (R.S.B.G.); (L.C.B.)
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Pereira PML, Camargo PG, Fernandes BT, Flores-Junior LAP, Dias LRS, Lima CHS, Pinge-Filho P, Lioni LMY, Yamada-Ogatta SF, Bispo MLF, Macedo F. In vitro evaluation of antitrypanosomal activity and molecular docking of benzoylthioureas. Parasitol Int 2020; 80:102225. [PMID: 33160050 DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2020.102225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
A series of sixteen benzoylthioureas derivatives were initially evaluated in vitro against the epimastigote form of Trypanosoma cruzi. All of the tested compounds inhibited the growth of this form of the parasite, and due to the promising anti-epimastigote activity from three of these compounds, they were also assayed against the trypomastigote and amastigote forms. ADMET-Tox in silico predictions and molecular docking studies with two main enzymatic targets (cruzain and CYP-51) were performed for the three compounds with the highest activity. The docking studies showed that these compounds can interact with the active site of cruzain by hydrogen bonds and can be coordinated with Fe-heme through the carbonyl oxygen atom of the CYP51. These findings can be considered an important starting point for the proposal of the benzoylthioureas as potent, selective, and multi-target antitrypanosomal agents.
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- Patricia M L Pereira
- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Microrganismos, Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Microrganismos, Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química Medicinal, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química Medicinal, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Química Medicinal, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Imunopatologia Experimental, Departamento de Ciências Patológicas, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Microrganismos, Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Microrganismos, Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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Brito TO, Abreu LO, Gomes KM, Lourenço MCS, Pereira PML, Yamada-Ogatta SF, de Fátima Â, Tisher CA, Macedo F, Bispo MLF. Benzoylthioureas: Design, Synthesis and Antimycobacterial Evaluation. Med Chem 2018; 16:93-103. [PMID: 30526466 DOI: 10.2174/1573406415666181208110753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Revised: 11/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND New drugs and strategies to treat tuberculosis (TB) are urgently needed. In this context, thiourea derivatives have a wide range of biological activities, including anti-TB. This fact can be illustrated with the structure of isoxyl, an old anti-TB drug, which has a thiourea as a pharmacophore group. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the synthesis and the antimycobacterial activity of fifty-nine benzoylthioureas derivatives. METHODS Benzoylthiourea derivatives have been synthesized and evaluated for their activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the MABA assay. After that, a structure-activity relationship study of this series of compounds has been performed. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Nineteen compounds exhibited antimycobacterial activity between 423.1 and 9.6 μM. In general, we observed that the presence of bromine, chlorine and t-Bu group at the para-position in benzene ring plays an important role in the antitubercular activity of Series A. These substituents were fixed at this position in benzene ring and other groups such as Cl, Br, NO2 and OMe were introduced in the benzoyl ring, leading to the derivatives of Series B. In general, Series B was less cytotoxic than Series A, which indicates that the presence of a substituent at benzoyl ring contributes to an improvement in both antimycobacterial activity and toxicity profiles. CONCLUSION Compound 4c could be considered a good prototype to be submitted to further structural modifications in the search for new anti-TB drugs, since it is 1.8 times more active than the first line anti-TB drug ethambutol and 0.65 times less active than isoxyl.
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- Tiago O Brito
- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil.,Departamento de Química, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Av Brasil, 4232, Campus Medianeira, Medianeira - PR, 85884-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bacteriologia e Bioensaios, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bacteriologia e Bioensaios, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte - MG, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biotecnologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid (PR 445), Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina - PR, 86057-970, Brazil
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Bispo MLF, Lima CHS, Cardoso LNF, Candéa ALP, Bezerra FAFM, Lourenço MCS, Henriques MGMO, Alencastro RB, Kaiser CR, Souza MVN, Albuquerque MG. Anti-Mycobacterial Evaluation of 7-Chloro-4-Aminoquinolines and Hologram Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (HQSAR) Modeling of Amino-Imino Tautomers. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2017; 10:ph10020052. [PMID: 28598408 PMCID: PMC5490409 DOI: 10.3390/ph10020052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Revised: 06/05/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
In an ongoing research program for the development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs, we synthesized three series (A, B, and C) of 7-chloro-4-aminoquinolines, which were evaluated in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Now, we report the anti-MTB and cytotoxicity evaluations of a new series, D (D01–D21). Considering the active compounds of series A (A01–A13), B (B01–B13), C (C01–C07), and D (D01–D09), we compose a data set of 42 compounds and carried out hologram quantitative structure–activity relationship (HQSAR) analysis. The amino–imino tautomerism of the 4-aminoquinoline moiety was considered using both amino (I) and imino (II) forms as independent datasets. The best HQSAR model from each dataset was internally validated and both models showed significant statistical indexes. Tautomer I model: leave-one-out (LOO) cross-validated correlation coefficient (q2) = 0.80, squared correlation coefficient (r2) = 0.97, standard error (SE) = 0.12, cross-validated standard error (SEcv) = 0.32. Tautomer II model: q2 = 0.77, r2 = 0.98, SE = 0.10, SEcv = 0.35. Both models were externally validated by predicting the activity values of the corresponding test set, and the tautomer II model, which showed the best external prediction performance, was used to predict the biological activity responses of the compounds that were not evaluated in the anti-MTB trials due to poor solubility, pointing out D21 for further solubility studies to attempt to determine its actual biological activity.
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- Marcelle L F Bispo
- Departamento de Química, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina 86057-970, Brazil.
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Faculdade de Farmácia, Laboratório de Química Medicinal (LQMed), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Aplicadas a Produtos para Saúde, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói 24241-000, Brazil.
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Pesquisas Clínicas Evandro Chagas (IPEC), Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil.
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Pesquisas Clínicas Evandro Chagas (IPEC), Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil.
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos (Far-Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro 21041-250, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química (PGQu), Instituto de Química (IQ), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21949-900, Brazil.
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Cardoso LNF, Bispo MLF, Kaiser CR, Wardell JL, Wardell SMSV, Lourenço MCS, Bezerra FAFM, Soares RPP, Rocha MN, de Souza MVN. Anti-tuberculosis evaluation and conformational study of N-acylhydrazones containing the thiophene nucleus. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2014; 347:432-48. [PMID: 24616002 DOI: 10.1002/ardp.201300417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Revised: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A series of N-acylhydrazonyl-thienyl derivatives (compounds 2 and 3), mainly of the type 2-(aryl-CH=N-NHCOCH2 )-thiene (2: aryl = substituted-phenyl; 3: aryl = heteroaryl) were evaluated against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Particularly active compound was 3 (heteroaryl = 5-nitrothien-2-yl or 5-nitrofuran-2-yl) with MIC values of 8.5 and 9.0 μM, respectively. Moderately active compounds were compound 3 (heteroaryl = pyridin-2-yl) and compound 2 containing aryl = 2- or 4-hydroxyphenyl groups, with MIC values between 170 and 408 μM. Compound 2 containing OMe, H, F, Cl, Br, CN, and NO2 substituents and compound 3 (heteroaryl = furan-2-yl, thien-2-yl, pyrrol-2-yl, imidazol-2-yl, pyridin-3-yl, and pyridin-4-yl) were all inactive. Clearly, there is no correlation of activity with the electronic effects of the substituents. The activities suggest different modes of biological action of the compounds having nitro-heteroaryl groups, on the one hand, and the 2-hydroxyphenyl or pyridin-2-yl substituents, on the other hand. Compounds having 2- or 4-hydroxyphenyl, 2-hydroxy-5-nitrophenyl, or 4-hydroxy-3-chlorophenyl were less cytotoxic than ethambutol. It is important to notice that compound 3 (aryl = 5-NO2 -furan-2-yl) exhibited a promising therapeutic index (TI = 1093.90), with a value 4.4 less than that of ethambutol. Compounds 2 and 3 exist in DMSO or MeOD solutions as mixtures of EC(O)N /EC=N and ZC(O)N /EC=N conformers.
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- Laura N F Cardoso
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far Manguinhos, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Coimbra ES, Antinarelli LMR, da Silva AD, Bispo MLF, Kaiser CR, de Souza MVN. 7-Chloro-4-quinolinyl hydrazones: a promising and potent class of antileishmanial compounds. Chem Biol Drug Des 2013; 81:658-65. [PMID: 23350797 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2012] [Revised: 11/03/2012] [Accepted: 01/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this work, we report the antileishmanial evaluation of twenty 7-chloro-4-quinolinyl hydrazone derivatives (1-20). Firstly, the compounds were tested against promastigotes of four different Leishmania species. After that, all derivatives were assayed against L. braziliensis amastigotes and murine macrophages. Furthermore, it was investigated whether the antiamastigote L. braziliensis effect of the compounds could be associated with nitric oxide production. Compounds 6 and 7 showed a strong leishmanicidal activity against intracellular parasite with IC50 in nanogram levels (30 and 20 ng/mL, respectively). Appreciable activity of three compounds tested can be considered an important finding for the rational design of new leads for antileishmanial compounds.
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- Elaine S Coimbra
- Departamento de Parasitologia, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Cidade Universitária, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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de Souza MVN, Bispo MLF, Alcantara CCD, Wardell SMSV, Wardell JL. Structures of a co-crystal of tautomers of (E)-N-7-chloro-4-(2-methoxycinnamolyhydrazinyl)quinoline and a single tautomer of the 4-methoxy analogue. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2013. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2013.1596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A crystal structure determination confirmed that the product from 7-chloroquinilin-4-ylhydrazine and 4-methoxycinnanamic acid had been isolated from MeOCH2CH2OH solution as [(E)-N′-7-chloro-4-(4-methoxycinnamolyhydrazinyl)quinoline, 1. In contrast, recrystallization of the 2-MeO derivative, 2, from the same solvent, produced a 1 : 1 co-crystalline mixture of two tautomers, namely (E)-N′-7-chloro-4-(2-methoxycinnaämolyhydrazinyl)quinoline and 7-chloro-4(1 H)quinolinone 3-(2-methoxycinnamoyl)hydrazone, molecules A and B, respectively. Molecules 1 and 2A have “L”-shapes and, in general, have very similar conformations, which differ from that of 2B, mainly arising from the rotation about the (O)C—N(N) bond within the linker unit between the quinolone and methoxyphenyl rings. In both 1 and 2, the 3-dimensional supramolecular arrangements involve strong N—H…N, N—H…O, C—H…O and C—H…π hydrogen bonds, while additionally in 2, there are π…π, C—Cl…π and C—H…Cl intermolecular interactions.
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Coelho TS, Cantos JB, Bispo MLF, Gonçalves RSB, Lima CHS, da Silva PEA, Souza MVN. In vitro anti-mycobacterial activity of (E)-N'-(monosubstituted-benzylidene) isonicotinohydrazide derivatives against isoniazid-resistant strains. Infect Dis Rep 2012; 4:e13. [PMID: 24470920 PMCID: PMC3892661 DOI: 10.4081/idr.2012.e13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2011] [Revised: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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A series of twenty-three N-acylhydrazones derived from isoniazid (INH 1-23) have been evaluated for their in vitro antibacterial activity against INH- susceptible strain of M. tuberculosis (RG500) and three INH-resistant clinical isolates (RG102, RG103 and RG113). In general, derivatives 4, 14, 15 and 16 (MIC=1.92, 1.96, 1.96 and 1.86 µM, respectively) showed relevant activities against RG500 strain, while the derivative 13 (MIC=0.98 µM) was more active than INH (MIC=1.14 µM). However, these derivatives were inactive against RGH102, which displays a mutation in the coding region of inhA. These results suggest that the activities of these compounds depend on the inhibition of this enzyme. However, the possibility of other mechanisms of action cannot be excluded, since compounds 2, 4, 6, 7, 12–17, 19, 21 and 23 showed good activities against katG-resistant strain RGH103, being more than 10-fold more active than INH.
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far Manguinhos; ; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Química, Departamento de Química Orgânica, RS, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far Manguinhos; ; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Química, Departamento de Química Orgânica, RS, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far Manguinhos; ; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Química, Departamento de Química Orgânica, RS, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos-Far Manguinhos; ; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Química, Departamento de Química Orgânica, RS, Brazil
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